| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Spirits | | By Robert Bridges (1844–1930) |
| | | ANGEL spirits of sleep, | |
| White-robed, with silver hair, | |
| In your meadows fair, | |
| Where the willows weep, | |
| And the sad moonbeam | 5 |
| On the gliding stream | |
| Writes her scatter’d dream: | |
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| Angel spirits of sleep, | |
| Dancing to the weir | |
| In the hollow roar | 10 |
| Of its waters deep; | |
| Know ye how men say | |
| That ye haunt no more | |
| Isle and grassy shore | |
| With your moonlit play; | 15 |
| That ye dance not here, | |
| White-robed spirits of sleep, | |
| All the summer night | |
| Threading dances light? | | | | |
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